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VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes
Introduction to the Technology
VMware Cloud Foundation is a unified software-defined data center
solution that bundles compute, storage, network virtualization and cloud
monitoring and management. VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC
vSAN Ready Nodes with AMD processor can be deployed either on-
premises, hosted with a service provider as a private cloud or run as a
service within or integrate to a public cloud.
VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture
VMware Cloud Foundation can be deployed as two types of architecture
model - standard and consolidated. A standard architecture model
includes a dedicated management domain, with dedicated infrastructure
created during the deployment phase, whereas a consolidated
architecture is deployed on a smaller infrastructure footprint of six or
fewer hosts, and both the management and workload domains run in the
management domain.
VMware Cloud Foundation
extends the benefits of
compute, storage, and network
virtualization to legacy data
centers and their cumbersome
management of multiple siloes
of infrastructure. Cloud
foundation also simplifies the
provisioning, orchestration,
monitoring and management
of resources with an integrated
software defined data center
platform that is the foundation
for both private and public
cloud environments.
Tech Note by
Thomas MM
Summary
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are
preconfigured, tested and certified
hyperconverged infrastructure to
run VMware vSAN, a radically
simple software-defined storage.
Each Ready Node includes the
right amount of CPU, memory, and
network I/O controllers, within a
vSAN hyperconverged
infrastructure cluster to run a your
private or hybrid cloud solution.
Rather than starting from scratch
deploying varied virtualization tools
for compute, network, storage, etc.,
vSAN Ready Nodes start with a
preconfigured layer to deploy
VMware Cloud Foundation, which
helps customers provision
infrastructure automatically and
reliably through workload domains.
These Ready Nodes help mitigate
human error by reducing the time
taken to choose and validate the
right cloud infrastructure, while
greatly accelerating the time
required to provision ready to use
infrastructure from weeks to just
few hours.
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Infrastructure for hosting VMware Cloud Foundation as Standard Architecture
Model
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are one of the building blocks in the Dell EMC solution portfolio, wherein we can
deploy the VMware Cloud Foundation solution stack. A hyperconverged infrastructure (vSAN Ready node)
improves the efficiency and management of complex data center infrastructure by leveraging the capabilities that
a vSAN Ready nodes provides as the basic building block for the Cloud.
The following are the minimum hardware required for the Standard Architecture.
For Management Domain.
The Management domain hosts the infrastructure workloads and requires a minimum of 4-hosts.
For Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain.
The Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domains host the tenant workloads and consists of a minimum of one cluster
of 4 hosts or more. Hosts within a single cluster must be homogeneous.
The below table lists the infrastructure required to host the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Standard Architecture
Model.
Description
Configuration
Qty
Not
es
Management Cluster (4-vSAN Ready Nodes)
4
4-Node Management Cluster
•
Processors
1S 8C (for All-Flash)
2
All-Flash nodes within a cluster
1S 8C (for Hybrid)
1
Nodes with a combination of flash and
spindle disks within a cluster
•
Memory
192 GB
1
•
Disk Space
16GB Boot Device
1
Local Media
NVMe or SSD
1
Caching Tier
SSDs or HDDs
2
Capacity Tier
•
Network Interface
10 GbE or higher
2
(IOVP Certified)
1 GbE (Optional)
1
VI Workload Domain (4-Compatible vSAN Ready Nodes-cluster
minimum)
4
Choose from the VCG list of validated
vSAN RN for User Workload
•
Processors
As per user-workload Sizing
•
Memory
•
Disk Space
•
Network Interface
•
Storage
Table-1. Hardware Configuration – For Standard Architecture
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The below table lists the AMD-based Dell EMC PowerEdge servers validated for vSAN Ready Nodes.
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Node
No. Of Sockets
No. Of Cores
AMD CPU Platform
•
R6515
1S
32/64
AMD EPYC 7502, AMD EPYC
7742
•
R6525
2S
32/64
•
R7515
1S
32/64
•
C6525
2S
32/64
•
R7525
2S
32/64
Table-2. List of AMD platform-based PowerEdge vSAN Ready Nodes
In Conclusion
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes on an AMD-based server platform are pre-configured, validated, and certified to
reduce deployment challenges, increase efficiency, and in turn, helps ease the setting up of a VMware private
cloud.
With one of the broadest vSAN Ready Node portfolios in the market, Dell EMC helps customers scale strategically
and ensures that critical IT resources are configured as per standards for maintaining productivity and competitive
cloud advantage.
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